JohnW
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| Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 23 2014,10:02) | | Quote (NoName @ Dec. 23 2014,12:31) | | Since this is much more cleanly written and much more coherent than his more recent efforts, |
i've always been of the belief that gary starts with a fairly simple sentance, then, in an attempt to make it somehow resistant to quote-mining, he goes back and adds little precision details in an iterative process, but thanks to bad punctuation it bones the grammar up. That's how i used to emulate him. |
I think it's less complicated than that.
I think his "theory" came to him in a flash of (for want of a better word) inspiration. It's blindingly, crashingly obvious to him, and surely this ought to be recognized as a phenomenal, Nobel-worthy breakthrough.
So if everyone else thinks it's nonsense, the problem isn't that it's nonsense. It's that it needs rewording. So he rewords it. Everyone still thinks it's nonsense. So he rewords it, with qualifiers, digressions and supplementary detail. Everyone now thinks it's not just nonsense, but incoherent nonsense. So he rewords it...
Lather, rinse, repeat for five years.
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Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers
There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"... The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG
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